Superb Quotes About Communication

Communication: is the act of conveying intended meanings from one entity or group to another through the use of mutually understood signs and semiotic rules.

 

 

Superb Quotes About Communication

  • If I went back to college again, I’d concentrate on two areas: learning to write and to speak before an audience. Nothing in life is more important than the ability to communicate effectively. Gerald Ford

 

  • The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them. Ralph Nichols

 

  • We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak. Epictetus

 

  • Weigh the meaning and look not at the words. Ben Johnson

 

  • Language is the picture and counterpart of thought. Mark Hopkins

 

  • The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men. Dionysius Cato

 

  • Without credible communication and a lot of it, employee hearts and minds are never captured. John Kotter

 

  • Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. William Butler Yeats

 

  •  If you can’t say it in 30 seconds, you probably can’t say it at all. If you know, you can make any point very well in 30 seconds. Terry Mayo

 

  • Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Plato

 

  • A moment of thinking is an hour of words. Thomas Hood

 

  • Words are the only things that last for ever. William Hazlitt

 

  • Language is not only the vehicle of thought; it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking. Sir Humphrey Davy

 

  • One great use of words is to hide our thoughts. Voltaire

 

  • The pen is the tongue of the mind. Miguel de Cervantes

 

  • Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language. Walt Disney

 

  • Proper words in proper places make the true definition of style. Jonathan Swift

 

  • Words are both better and worse than thoughts, they express them and add to them; they give them power for good or evil; they start them on an endless flight, for instruction and comfort and blessing, or for injury and sorrow and ruin. Tryon Edwards

 

  • It is very important to work hard and not talk about it. We are often criticised for being too discrete. But in the military, you never say anything unless it is to mislead the enemy. Alfred Schindler

 

  • The word is half his that speaks and half his that hears it. Michel de Montaigne

 

  • The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t said. Peter Drucker

 

  • Coherent communication is based on four key principles: 1. Achieve understanding first 2. Listen non-judgmentally 3.Listen for the essence 4. Be authentic.  Doc Childre and Bruce Cryer
  • If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, where X is work, Y is play and Z is keep your mouth shut.” Albert Einstein

 

  • The essence of good management is the art of making difficult things simple, not simple things difficult. Source Unknown

 

  • Communication is really all anyone ever gets paid for ultimately…and if you cannot effectively communicate…you will PAY…not get paid. Doug Firebaugh

 

  • We shall never understand one another until we reduce the language to seven words. Kahlil Gibran

 

  • I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realise that what you heard is not what I meant. Robert McCloskey

 

  • Conversations are the way knowledge workers discover what they know, share it with colleagues, and in the process create new knowledge for the organisation. Alan Webber

 

  • For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind. Do they see it well-clothed, neat, business like? Bruce Barton

 

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